The three Bs of business, Bollywood and Buddhism are set to bringIndia and Taiwan closer as the self-ruled island nation -- encouragedby the thaw with China -- looks afresh at India as a rising Asianpower and burgeoning market.

"Taiwan can't put all the eggs in one basket. We are now reaching outto rising Asian powers like India so that we can establish Taiwan asAsia's logistics centre," Mr Francis Kuo-Hsin Liang, Vice Minister ofEconomic Affairs, said in an interview in the skyscraper-speckedTaiwanese capital that boasts of the world's second tallest building,Tower 101.

Riding on two years of thaw with mainland China, a signatureinitiative of President Ma Ying-jieou, Taipei is now readying to signa landmark Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement next month withBeijing that could act as a precursor to similar trade pacts withother countries.

"Improving relations with China and stabilised regional situationwill encourage emerging powers like India to be more willing andcooperate with Taiwan," he stressed.

India, which did not loom high on Taipei's horizon during its AsianTiger days in the 1990s, is now a focus country as the Indian economycontinues to grow at over seven per cent in times of global meltdown.

Although India officially follows one-China policy, this has notdeterred Taiwan -- the world's 17th largest economy, a manufacturinghub of iPods and the world's top producer of PC notebooks -- fromsetting an ambitious target to scale up its bilateral trade from thecurrent $ 6 billion to $ 10 billion in the next five years.

Only 23 countries recognise Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that splitfrom mainland China in 1947, and lost its UN seat to Beijing in 1971.

"India accounts for less than one per cent of our total trade," MrLiang said alluding to plans to expand trade and investment in areasranging from IT hardware, electronics, machinery and agri-tech andfood processing industries.

"That's why this year we have targeted a few emerging markets likeIndia and Indonesia for promoting trade and industry. Our industry isvery excited about the potential of the Indian market."

"Corporates, think-tanks, and academia are now closely evaluatingemerging markets like India," said Mr David S Hong, president of theTaiwan Institute of Economic Research, an influential think-tank.

Top Taiwanese companies like HTC, Acer, BenQ and CEC are alreadythriving in India. The Delhi Metro is linked to Japan in people'sminds in India, but not many know that CEC is one of the co-projectors of the Metro.

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The shoot will be completed in 60-70 days though the schedule is yetto be finalised. Once the schedule was ready, the period for whichBig B would be required to stay in Bhopal would be known, Jha said.Bachchan has not yet done a film shoot in Bhopal, the city of his in-laws.

Jha added that the controversy surrounding Rajneeti being based onCongress President Sonia Gandhi's life has ended. "For me, it is athing of the past."

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Bhopal - More than 25 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, a localcourt will give its verdict today against Union Carbide and otherrespondents.

While many are hopeful that the verdict will punish those responsiblefor maiming thousands of Bhopalis, others believe it's a classic caseof too little too late.

It has been a long wait for victims and their families all thiswhile.

On December 3, 1984, the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal releasedmethyl isocyanate. While thousands died, many others passed on theharmful effects of the gas genetically.

Three years later, the CBI filed a chargesheet against 12 accused,including Warren Anderson, the former chairman of Union CarbideCorporation, US. He was arrested but later released on bail. Andersonhas since been absconding.

The second accused in the case is Keshub Mahindra, former Chairman ofUnion Carbide India Ltd. He's now the chairman of automobile giantMahindra and Mahindra.

The accused were originally to be tried for culpable homicide notamounting to murder, which carries a maximum punishment of 10 years.But later they moved Supreme Court, which diluted the charge tocausing death by negligence, which carries a maximum imprisonment oftwo years.

"We hope we will get justice. But the sections the accused arecharged with only sentences them to a maximum of two years. Where isthe justice then," says one of the victims.

"Whether it is the state or central government, we want them to giveus justice. We will campaign against the company and WarrenAnderson," says another.

The victims, who have waited over 25 years, are certainly not toooptimistic about getting justice.

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